Re: [Opensync-devel] Should we officially kill the 0.22 ?

[Adam W. <awi...@ma...>]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 19:52 +0200, Juha Tuomala wrote:

> I didn't refer that nonsense about me suggesting to keep the 0.3x and 
> libsyncml stuff, don't know where those came but everyone here knows
> what I think. :-D

> 
> All i tried to say, that ship what works and is supported: wbxml &
> libsyncml

But what's the point? They don't *do* anything without opensync. What
use is it having packages for current versions of these in a
distribution if you can't do anything with them? Who does that help?

As I wrote, if you provide some kind of application which does something
useful with them, then I'm happy to support getting them into Fedora;
it's perfectly possible for us to ship both old versions for opensync
0.22 and newer versions for something else in parallel.

If we can ship a current / fixed wbxml2 and it will still work with
libsyncml 0.4.6 and opensync 0.22 I'd be happy with that, too, btw. I
don't know the details of this issue.

But, I'm sorry, proposing we should drop opensync entirely just because
you think people using 0.22 will somehow hamper upstream development is
crazy. If upstream wants to work on 0.3/0.4 and not be bothered about
0.22 - fine. Close bugs filed on 0.22 and don't reply to messages from
people using it, or just send a stock reply telling them to talk to the
Fedora maintainers. That's OK, go ahead and do that, I don't mind at
all. But the fact is that 0.22 can do useful stuff for a lot of people
and devices, so shipping it provides valuable functionality to Fedora.
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